10 Gracie Square
also 623 East 83rd Street, 11 Gracie Square, 12 Gracie Square | Yorkville | built 1930
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1930
Ten Gracie Square is built as a 15-story cooperative of 34 duplex and semiduplex apartments
The cooperative goes up in 1930 on a short dead-end street off York Avenue, close to East 84th Street, with the East River in view. Its 15 stories hold 34 duplex and semiduplex apartments. A 1996 New York Times feature says the building has always had a reputation for exclusivity, and that in the three apartments it profiles, few structural changes mean the original shapes of the living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms can still be seen.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1981
Citicorp's former president Richard Braddock and his wife Susan move into apartment 9F and call in Mark Hampton
Richard Braddock, a private investor who formerly headed Citicorp, and his wife Susan, a board member of the Metropolitan Opera Guild, move into apartment 9F in 1981. Soon afterward they ask decorator Mark Hampton to give it the feel of a London house, which they had enjoyed during a few years in England. Hampton called the building's Art Moderne detailing thin and layered chintzes, stripes and needlepoint over it instead.
Source: Internet Archive
- 1988
Gloria Vanderbilt's son Carter Cooper dies in a fall from the penthouse terrace
Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, 23, a son of designer and heiress Gloria Vanderbilt, jumps from the penthouse terrace on the 14th floor of 10 Gracie Square at about 7 p.m., police say, landing in an alley between the building and the river walkway. He had been treated for depression and left no note. His mother was with him on the terrace.
Source: Internet Archive
- 2000
Madame Chiang Kai-shek sells her Long Island estate and lives out her life in a Gracie Square apartment
Soong Mei-ling, the widow of Chiang Kai-shek, sells her Long Island estate in 2000. She lives out her remaining years in a 10 Gracie Square apartment that her niece owns, and she dies there in her sleep on October 23, 2003, at the age of 105.
“…spent the rest of her life in the 10 Gracie Square apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan owned by her niece.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2010
Headhunter Clarke Murphy buys the apartment once home to radio's Lois Lane, Joan Alexander
The sale of an 11-room semi-duplex once home to actress Joan Alexander and her husband Arthur Stanton closes under its $7.995 million asking price, with buyers Clarke Murphy of Russell Reynolds Associates and his wife Whitney. Alexander played Lois Lane in more than 1,600 episodes of the radio show The Adventures of Superman. Her daughter Jane Stanton Hitchcock recalls parties where George Plimpton proposed to his future wife and Leonard Bernstein often sat at the family piano.
Source: observer.com
- 2017
The Obamas are reported to tour a duplex here, though a source later says they never applied
In October 2017 the New York Post reports that Barack and Michelle Obama have been seen entering 10 Gracie Square for viewings, with speculation that they are buying a duplex that Daniel Romualdez designed, which had just gone into contract at $10 million. By February 2018 a source close to the couple tells New York magazine they never submitted an application and that no deal was ever floated.
Source: nymag.com
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- 10 Gracie SquareWikipedia
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